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They're actively trying to suppress the outrage (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 67 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It's their walled garden, which they control and were they get to do whatever the fuck they want.

Never, ever jump into a tech stack which is a walled garden, because sooner or later you're almost certainly going to get shafted by those who control it. This applies just as much as a tech consumer as it does as a tech professional.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    While I agree, the average person doesn't consider things like this (even though they should), and we should avoid getting close to victim blaming.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    The first part it is indeed true.

    For the second part it really depends: one thing is a technologically naive person who gets themselves into such a situation because of not knowing better, a whole different thing is somebody who should know better but still go in because of convenience and hoping for the best.

    In my eyes the former are victims, but not the latter, so I'll definitely blame the latter for jumping in with some awareness of the risks thinking "I will probably be alright" - if you jumped in the pool were you knew there was a shark and got bitten that's on you.

    I also definitely blame fanboys, because their actions help pull in more of the first kind - when one is too ignorant about the broader implications of a choice, they shouldn't be actively be trying to get other people to make that choice.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    We've tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won't learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it's a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

    It's not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don't learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I agree but it's not even a point of education (for the most part) imo. It's that a large amount of people are easily manipulated and are not properly equipped to fight it off.

    Societal peer pressure carries a lot of this stuff very far. If two friends but the latest game, a third will likely do so as well; and the sample size is rarely limited to three.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    General public is tired, mfs working minimum wage and want some joy out of their paycheck, they want to play the lastest sports game with their friends, doesn't appeal to me but ik plenty of power users who still buy those games and play them too actually, honestly its not even expensive if you work and actually play those games all year every year?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    They charge what they want because the general public still likes it and cares enough to support it every year, they still get more than enough value out of it, blame the lack of comeptitors and ppl being hung up on needing licensing

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